I LOVE Dijon Mustard it is one of those things that I always have to have in the kitchen I use it for my sandwiches, hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken salad, tuna salad, and many more things. But one of the things it has to be in is my basic salad dressing. Usually I just use any kind of small container for my salad dressing but today I had an empty Dijon Mustard jar that I just finished and I had to use it to make some salad dressing.
Now there are so many things and versions on salad dressing one can do, but there is always a basic base and after that you can really add any other spice you want, and not only that it only takes about 5 minutes to make. You no longer have to worry about if you have salad dressing for people or if the salad dressing has high fructose corn syrup, too much sugar or has too many calories. This is a great little tasty and very light salad dressing.
Grey Poupon Dijon Mustard Salad Dressing
Base:
1 tsp Dijon
2 tbsp wine vinegar
6 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepperYou can just use the base or add the additions; it depends on your taste.
I usually add one or all of these additions:
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp fresh/dried parsley or dill
1 pressed garlic glove
1 tsp Oregano
1 tsp parmigiano cheeseTaste and you can always adjust based on your taste, if you want it more sour add more vinegar, want milder add more olive oil, want creamier add mustard or cheese, want spicer add more mustard.
Enjoy!
Penny says
June 15, 2010 at 7:34 amOr add a titch of maple syrup for some sweetness!
Delishhh replied: — June 17th, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Penny – yes of course. I forgot to state that if you want some sweetness add some maple syrup. I know your dressing is delicious 🙂
Anna Jones says
June 15, 2010 at 10:32 amYum! I never thought of a dijon and soy combination but that actually sounds good.
Thanks for sharing!
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Delishhh replied: — June 17th, 2010 @ 9:42 am
Anna – yeah it great, i use soy instead of salt sometimes.
IslandEAT says
June 15, 2010 at 9:37 pmHi, Ewa. I like this versatile and simple recipe with a few options I never used (and I enjoyed the Swedish strawberry cake of your last post, as well!).
Thanks,
Dan
Delishhh replied: — June 17th, 2010 @ 9:53 am
Dan – What do you put in your salad dressing?
Reeni says
June 16, 2010 at 7:44 amI really love Dijon mustard too! Use it in everything including my dressings. Delicious ideas! I like to add Parmesan.
Delishhh replied: — June 17th, 2010 @ 9:55 am
Reeni – I agree parmesan is great. Thanks for stopping by.
riley says
April 2, 2012 at 11:38 ami like your idea……but i found it better suited for dressing asparagus than a whole salad……good recycling
Howard Taft says
November 1, 2012 at 6:30 pmI printed this recipe and it took 8 pages of ads and B.S. before I finally gave up and stopped the process. I will never use your web site again.
Delishhh replied: — November 2nd, 2012 @ 7:06 am
Howard – I am so sorry about this. I recently updates the site and not all recipes are in the new format yet and have a print icon. So i downloaded a new feature where you can now print without adding all the ads, and also print using pdf. Please try again. I am truly sorry for the bad experience.
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Bayu says
November 10, 2015 at 8:50 pmI LOVE the black bean salad too! The barley salad (on the cover) is great. Everything I’ve made from the book is great. I’ve made: hoemmade ketchup, ranchero sauce, miso soup, broccoli soup, tortilla soup (you MUST make the tortillas strips!), barbecued tofu chop salad, multigrain quickbread, lasagna, and choc chip cookies. I’m dying to make the rfd burgers but I think it would take 2 days!Have fun!